105TH PERSUASIVE APPEAL_7DEC16_TO THE SCP JUSTICES : BE SUBSERVIENT TO THE DICTATES OF THE PRESIDENT

SHELL,  ITS MANAGERS, LAWYERS AND JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME  COURT THROUGH ADMISSION BY NO OBJECTION FOR MORE THAN A YEAR TO THE  COMPLAINT OF CONSPIRACY   TO INFLICT PROLONGED PAIN AND  SUFFERING AGAINST ME AND MY FAMILY. from: antonio buensuceso <antoniobuensucesoshell@gmail.com> to: Eduard.Geus@shell.com, accra@accralaw.com, ecmanibogjr@accralaw.com, jcleong@accralaw.com, pio@sc.judiciary.gov.ph, pio_feedback@sc.judiciary.gov.ph, pio_invitations@sc.judiciary.gov.ph, pio_personnel@sc.judiciary.gov.ph, pio_questions@sc.judiciary.gov.ph cc: John Donovan <john@shellnews.net>, rosebuens@gmail.com, Mosses Buensuceso <mosses@alumni.nus.edu.sg>, mimikyut <mimikyut@yahoo.com>, Aaron Buensuceso <aaronbuensuceso@gmail.com>, veronica buensuceso <vcbuensuceso@gmail.com>, Mia Buensuceso <miriambuens@gmail.com> date: Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:29 AM subject: GEUS_4DEC15_REITERATION OF DEMAND PAYMENT OF RETIREMENT PAY mailed-by: gmail.com EXHIBIT  1 EXHIBIT 2 EXHIBIT 3 EXHIBIT 4 EXCERPTED FROM  ATTY. RAUL QUIROZ DEFENSE PLEADINGS NUMBERS 21,  22,  23,  24,  25,  26 EXHIBIT 5 EXHIBIT 6 photos of the defense lawyers and prticulars COPY RECIPIENTS Copies  for Atty. Raul Quiroz and his counsels  was sent through his counsels'   Atty.Emiterio C. Manibog Jr.  and Atty. Joy Anne C. Leong-Pambid  and ACCRA LAW Head Office  e-mail addresses and copies   for PILIPINAS SHELL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, STOCKHOLDERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS and Mr. Eduard Geus was sent  through     Mr. Eduard  Geus e-mail   for the Third Division Deputy Clerk of Court, Wilfredo V. Lapitan   AND for Honorable Chief Justice  Ma. Lourdes Sereno is coursed through  Atty. Theodore Te, PIO Chief, Supreme Court of the Philippines on December 4, 2015 The following Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines are DEEMED provided with copy STARTING FROM the "16TH FOLLOW UP_REITERATION OF DEMAND PAYMENT OF RETIREMENT PAY"  through Atty. Theodore Te's PIO e-mail address on  January 4, 2016  to the present and prayers for  corrective administrative  and/or judicial  and/or disciplinary actions  be instituted in due time. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno Justice Antonio T. Carpio Justice Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr. Justice Teresita J. Leonardo-De Castro Justice Arturo D. Brion Justice Diosdado M. Peralta Justice Lucas P. Bersamin Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo Justice Martin S. Villarama, Jr. RETIRED  FEBRUARY 2016 Justice Jose P. Perez Justice Jose C. Mendoza Justice Bienvenido L. Reyes Justice Estela M. Perlas-Bernabe Justice Marvic Mario Victor F. Leonen Justice Francis H. Jardeleza Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa E-MAIL DEEMED SENT THROUGH  PIO CHIEF E-MAIL ADDRESS BEGINNING  1 MARCH 2016 AFTER JUSTICE MARTIN VILLARAMA RETIRES

Police free Arroyo grandson

GLORIA AND MIKE IMAGE CREDIT: INQUIRER.NET Police free Arroyo grandson By: Carla P. Gomez - Correspondent / @carlagomezINQ Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:01 AM December 07, 2016 BACOLOD CITY—A grandson of former first gentleman Mike Arroyo’s late brother has been released from police custody for further investigation of the drug charges against him after he was arrested with two other men in a sting operation last week. The city prosecutor’s office directed the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to free Joshua Roberto Ignacio Arroyo pending resolution of the complaint against him of illegal drugs possession, a bailable offense, said Julius Navales, PDEA director for Negros Island Region. The two others arrested with Arroyo—his stepbrother Christian Mijares and Barangay 35 chair Manuel “Maui” Huelar Jr.—face non-bailable charges and remain in detention, Navales said. The three were arrested during a buy-bust operation inside a pension house at Liroville Subdivision in Barangay Singcang-Airport on Nov. 28.Huelar was accused of selling and possessing dangerous drugs while Mijares was charged with conspiracy to commit unlawful acts related to illegal drugs. Huelar was arrested after he handed a pack of “shabu” to an undercover PDEA agent posing as a buyer. The buy-bust item—a plastic sachet with suspected shabu worth P500—plus an additional P1,000 worth of shabu were seized from him, said Navales. Huelar, who used to play with the Negros Slashers in the Metropolitan Basketball Association, denied the charges. Navales said Arroyo, a grandson of the former Negros Occidental Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, got out of his room to check on the commotion inside Huelar’s room next door. Arroyo immediately tried to close the door to his room after an agent saw suspected drugs inside. The agent’s hand, which was holding a gun, got stuck in the door, prompting him to fire his weapon. The bullet hit Arroyo’s arm. He was taken to the hospital while the two others were detained. Two small packs of “shabu” were seized from Arroyo, Navales said. Mijares, who was in the room with Arroyo, was allegedly caught with a medium-sized sachet of suspected shabu, a pack of plastic sachets, a digital weighing scale, an improvised tooter, two disposable lighters and a cellular phone. In Western Visayas, police have declared 83 villages in the region free from the influence of illegal drugs. Supt. Gilbert Gorero, regional police spokesperson, said Aklan province recorded the most number of villages cleared, with 58. It was followed by Capiz province, with 23, and Guimaras, two. He said these villages were cleared due to the absence of drug users and pushers and illegal drug dens or laboratories. —WITH A REPORT FROM NESTOR P. BURGOS JR. SHARED FROM

WHY A PHILIPPINE DICTATORSHIP IS SURE TO FAIL

WHY A PHILIPPINE DICTATORSHIP IS SURE TO FAIL Posted by The Society of Honor on December 7, 2016 · 1 Comment  By Joe America Let’s break the Philippine population into three major component parts. The entitled. Politicians who are trapos, oligarchs, movie stars, and others who get rich and powerful by working within the class of entitlement and impunity to share opportunities and trade favors. The Philippines even has judges in this class, reflecting the gross ethical bankruptcy of this group. The educated elite. University professors, middle business managers (if they are honest), politicians who believe in democracy, and people who have traveled enough, and read enough, to understand the importance of human rights, laws, and the discipline of good ethical behavior. They are wiser than most which arouses envy and generates resentment from those in the other two groups. The needful masses. Lower-level workers who see others doing better than them, commuters waiting in lines, farmers and fishermen who can barely survive, tricycle peddlers, mothers with seven kids, the hungry . .  and many, many more. There are a whole lot of people in this group. They operate more with emotions and superstition than knowledge. A lot of Duterte supporters, most notably Senator Cayetano, like to point to Singapore to justify President Duterte’s autocratic style. The Philippines is on the path to success, they say, because this kind of authoritarian might is needed to cut through the crap of corruption, drugs and entitlement. I’m gobsmacked. Never before in my life have I seen carabao pies packaged as perfume. The dictator Marcos and the aspiring dictator Duterte put their power base together on the strength of group (1) manipulating group (3). The powerful and entitled are using and abusing the needful and needy, while telling them otherwise. Well, that is a personal opinion, of course. Not everyone thinks it is abusive for Filipino cops to murder innocent Filipinos by the thousands. Perfume in the Philippines comes in many different stenches. The educated elite (2) are the opposition, the enemies, of this new authoritarian order. The “dictator” Lee Kuan Yew put together his power base on the strength of group (2), period. His agency officials were honest, educated managers. Technocrats, not family. Economists, not friends. They did not manipulate the needy and needful, they took care of them. Furthermore, Lee was actually Prime minister, re-elected repeatedly. He won based on performance, not threat. Singapore thrived. Marcos failed and dealt the nation into poverty for decades. Duterte is on the path to failure as he undermines the very foundations of the economy. Driving off the BPO’s, insulting nations that host Philippine OFWs and make material economic contributions in the Philippines, kicking out US intelligence resources and allowing terrorists an open, unprotected nation in which to plant bombs, driving off tourists by raising a terror warning nationwide, and portraying the Philippines as a drug infested cesspit. Investors hate risks and instability. Only those with ulterior motives like China consider the Philippines a good place to put money. The 2017 budget was put together, not to focus on economic production, jobs and wealth, but to advance political goals. Praise and punish, not return on investment. Over 2 billion is allocated for trolls, which, if you think about it, is a destructive business. It does not build anything. When the measure of productivity is 75 insults per 1,000 words, you know this is not a government focused on unity or reducing poverty. (I made those statistics up, to show how easily the propaganda artists generate new facts.) Lee Kuan Yew promoted promise and hope and opportunity, and built economic strength. The aspiring dictator Duterte promotes darkness and death and fear, and economic bankruptcy, or delivery of the nation to China. See the difference? If you don’t, kindly accept my condolences. President Ramos got it right. The ship is sinking. Social turmoil is building. Unity is not forming. The only question is how long the government can function on the strength of the economy that President Aquino left behind, new debt acquired that pushes back the day the last shoe falls, the amount of perfume sold by cabinet members and trolls to call black white, and help from China that converts the Philippines to a new state of colonialism. Protest is futile. Those with needs are blind in their desire for immediate satisfaction or revenge. Many of the entitled are also motivated by revenge . . . against civility. Jailing 9 year olds. Shooting innocents. Gleefully building a death state. It’s a hell of a way to uplift a nation. And no one in government is listening. SHARED FROM THE SOCIETY OF HONOR : THE PHILIPPINES

MEL STA. MARIA_After VP Robredo's resignation, watch the Supreme Court

To understand Vice President Robredo’s apprehension, it is inevitable that we have to start from the place where the ending may happen. And that place is the Supreme Court.      Under the Constitution, only the Supreme Court, as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, can oust Leni Robredo from the vice presidency on the basis of the votes obtained in the election. Section 4 Article 7 of the 1987 Constitution provides that “the Supreme Court, sitting en banc, shall be the sole judge of all contests relating to the election, returns, and qualifications of the President or Vice-President, and may promulgate its rules for the purpose.” And it is quite reasonable to believe that one of the “events of the recent days” referred to by the Vice President may have been the promulgation of the Supreme Court -- through Associate Justices Peralta, Bersamin, Velasco, Brion, De Castro, Bernabe, Del Castillo, Mendoza and Perez – of that horrible decision allowing the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos to be buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani -- a decision which gave imprimatur to one of President Duterte’s campaign promises. Now, the dictator’s son Ferdinand (Bongbong) R. Marcos Jr. is banking on this same Supreme Court -- or at least a majority of its members -- to oust Vice President Leni Robredo and proclaim him as the winner for the position. This is not to say that he has no right to file an election protest. But  the incoherence of his position – the rejection of the result generated by the machine based on the people’s votes as to the vice presidency but acceptance of the same machine’s  result  insofar as the presidency is concerned, on the same ballot -- betrays its weakness. And, without the case still being heard on its merits, Bongbong smugly declared, “I will eventually take my seat that is being kept warm for me.” He should not have said that because it generated so many speculations. For instance, one wonders:  does this arrogance come from Bongbong’s sense of entitlement because he is a Marcos, or could this possibly be coming from something deeper, a more sinister, albeit for him reassuring, plan that will soon unravel before us? It is difficult to ignore President Duterte’s unapologetic support for the Marcoses. During his China state visit, President Duterte proudly introduced Bongbong as “the next vice-president if he wins his protest.” And this was made in the same sub-judice way the President publicly expressed his position favoring the Marcos burial even while the case was pending with the Supreme Court.  How much influence these sub-judice statements had on the majority of the Supreme Court justices in the burial-case was a serious and legitimate concern to many. Will it happen again in this Marcos-election-protest-case in the Supreme Court if indeed such sub judice statements are a factor? And surely, the justices of the Supreme Court are not unaware of the friendship between President Duterte and Bongbong. In fact, just after the election, President Duterte admitted that he offered Bongbong a cabinet position. “I promised him” President Duterte said in one encounter with media. Not only that. At that time, he did not want to appoint Leni Robredo to a cabinet position because he did  not wish to “hurt the feelings” of Bongbong. It seems that the President values his ties with the Marcoses over and above the prospects of fostering reconciliation, cooperation and inclusivity during his term. One other thing. The Supreme Court’s track record in cases involving high-profile political personalities appears to be ominous for Vice President Leni Robredo. This is the Supreme Court whose majority members are perceived -- rightly or wrongly -- to be always siding with the “elite,” the rich, the privileged, and/or people highly placed in the political ladder. And this perception has basis.  It acquitted former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former First Lady Imelda Marcos, granted bail to Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, adjudged absolute pardon for former President Joseph Estrada, excused Mayor Junjun Binay from sanction despite abandonment of the “Condonation doctrine,” and decided that Congressman Ronald Singson cannot be ousted as a representative because his drug-related-conviction did not concern a crime involving moral turpitude.  This is also the Supreme Court whose majority ruled against the coconut farmers and in favor of Danding Cojuangco in the coco-levy case because, among others, there was no showing that the latter was one of the “close associates of President Marcos” -- prompting former Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales, now the Ombudsman, to say that “the argument that Cojuangco was not the subordinate or close associate of the Marcoses is the biggest joke to hit the country.” And more recently, it is the Supreme Court which decided that the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, whose regime looted our national treasury and ushered in a period of summary execution, forced disappearance,  torture and gross violation of human rights against the Filipino people,  be buried in theLibingan ng mga Bayani.  Vice President Leni Robredo does not belong to the “elite,” the rich, or the powerful. She only has the people who voted for her as the source of her power. Given this Supreme Court perception, is it totally unjustified for people to be apprehensive as regards how the Supreme Court, sitting as an electoral tribunal, will decide the Vice Presidency and Leni’s fate?   I truly hope that the Supreme Court will come out with a decision truly uplifting our national spirit and affirming the sovereignty that resides on the people.    In the meantime, we seem to be paralyzed again by these latest developments,  and the need to process everything never appears to be fast enough for our brains to comprehend. We find ourselves asking once more,  “what now” and “what next”? Well, we should not  hold our breaths till we turn blue. We must think and act fast because eventually, it will affect us and the country. Yes, it is exhausting, and heaven knows it can be very frustrating. But at the end of the day, there are things which we simply cannot allow to happen again. So it is up to us to make sure that they do not. SHARED FROM

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A son’s delusions

Mr. Lee wrote: “The Philippines was a world apart from us, running a different style of politics and government under an American military umbrella. It was not until January 1974 that I visited President Marcos in Manila. When my Singapore Airlines plane flew into Philippine airspace, a small squadron of Philippine Air Force jet fighters escorted it to Manila Airport. There Marcos received me in great style -- the Filipino way. I was put up at the guest wing of Malacañang Palace in lavishly furnished rooms, valuable objects of art bought in Europe strewn all over. Our hosts were gracious, extravagant in hospitality, flamboyant. “His (Marcos’) foreign minister, Carlos P. Romulo, was a small man... some 20 years my senior, with a ready wit and a self-deprecating manner about his size and other limitations... His good standing with ASEAN leaders and with Americans increased the prestige of the Marcos administration. Marcos had in Romulo a man of honor and integrity who helped give a gloss of respectability to his regime as it fell into disrepute in the 1980s. “In Bali in 1976, at the first ASEAN summit held after the fall of Saigon, I found Marcos keen to push for greater economic cooperation in ASEAN. Marcos and I agreed to implement a bilateral Philippines-Singapore across-the-board 10 percent reduction of existing tariffs on all products and to promote intra-ASEAN trade. We also agreed to lay a Philippines-Singapore submarine cable. I was to discover that for him, the communiqué was the accomplishment itself; its implementation was secondary, an extra to be discussed at another conference. “We met every two to three years. He once took me on a tour of his library at Malacañang, its shelves filled with bound volumes of newspapers reporting his activities over the years since he first stood for elections. There were encyclopedia-size volumes on the history and culture of the Philippines with his name as the author. His campaign medals as an anti-Japanese guerrilla leader were displayed in glass cupboards. Imelda, his wife, had a penchant for luxury and opulence. When they visited Singapore before the Bali summit they came in stye in two DC8’s, his and hers. “International outrage over the killing (of Ninoy Aquino) resulted in foreign banks stopping all loans to the Philippines, which owed over $25 billion and could not pay the interest due. This brought Marcos to the crunch. He sent his minister for trade and industry, Bobby Ongpin, to ask me for a loan of US$300-500 million to meet the interest payments. I looked him straight in the eye and said, ‘We will never see that money back.’ “Shortly afterward, in February 1984, Marcos met me in Brunei at the sultanate’s independence celebrations. He had undergone a dramatic physical change... He looked most unhealthy... Marcos spent much of the time giving me a most improbable story of how Aquino had been shot. “As soon as all our aides left, I went straight to the point, that no bank was going to lend him any money. They wanted to know who was going to succeed him if anything were to happen to him; all the bankers could see that he no longer looked healthy. Singapore banks had lent US$8 billion of the US$25 billion owing. The hard fact was they were not likely to get repayment for some 20 years. “He countered that it would be only eight years. I said the bankers wanted to see a strong leader in the Philippines who could restore stability, and the Americans hoped the election in May would throw up someone who could be such a leader. I asked whom he would nominate for the election. He said Prime Minister Cesar Virata. “Virata replied it had to do with ‘flow of money’; she would have more money than other candidates to pay for the votes needed for nomination by the party and to win the election. He added that if she were the candidate, the opposition would put up Mrs. Cory Aquino and work up the people’s feelings. He said the economy was going down with no political stability. “...[The] culture of the Filipino people. It is a soft, forgiving culture. Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial. Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in politics. They supported the winning presidential and congressional candidates with their considerable resources and reappeared in the political and social limelight after the 1998 election that returned President Joseph Estrada. “One Filipino newspaper, Today, wrote on 22 November 1998, ‘Ver, Marcos and the rest of the official family plunged the country into two decades of lies, torture, and plunder. Over the next decade, Marcos’s cronies and immediate family would tiptoe back into the country, one by one -- always to the public’s revulsion and disgust, though they showed that there was nothing that hidden money and thick hides could not withstand.’” I think Mr. Lee believed the writer of the Philippine newspaper, the now defunct Today, because he believed the writer was right. (I think the writer may have been Teddy Boy Locsin but I could be wrong.) There were other passages relating to the coup attempts that stunted the country’s recovery which I am reserving for a subsequent article. I decided to quote Mr. Lee extensively to inform Mr. Marcos that the very leader of the country his father was allegedly attempting to emulate did not think too highly of his father, much less his father’s ability to make the Philippines another Singapore. He should read the book. He will, perhaps, be more careful in his assertions. I quote Mr. Lee because there are people who believe the younger Marcos’s assertion that had we not rebelled against his father because of “political manipulation,” we would be a Singapore by now and so wish to put the son in grabbing distance of the presidency. They should read the book. Mario Antonio G. Lopez teaches at the Asian Institute of Management and consults for business, government and civil society maglopez@gmail.com shared from